You have experienced Shakespeare: your life is complete. …or so the long-suffering English teacher promises the room full of bleary-eyed teenagers, attempting to convince them that Shakespeare ...

Few stories are as renowned as William Shakespeare’s classic tragic love story Romeo and Juliet, but that famous story is ...

Mark and Matthew tell us that Jesus conversed with the two pillars of the Old Testament, Moses and Elijah, but Luke adds that ...

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the professor who found it.

A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is very different from the usual version, sheds more light on the political ...

Seven years after Shakespeare's death, a giant edition of his plays, known as the First Folio, was published. Without this, many of the plays would probably have been lost forever, and we can now ...

There are no contemporary accounts of Shakespeare’s death, though he made his will a month before he died, in which he says he is in “perfect health”. Fifty years later the vicar of ...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 and it continues to be reinterpreted by theater directors up to this ...

whose other works include “Fight Call,” a play about a theater company’s years of rehearsing the death scenes of female Shakespeare characters. Canonical correction for the antisemitic ...